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PUNCH
ARMS DEAL:S’AFRICA TO RETURN NIGERIA'S
$15M..
South Africa is considering returning more than
$15m, it seized from Nigeria in September, last
year.
The money, which was meant for the purchase of
arms to fight the Boko Haram insurgents, was
seized in two batches of $5.7m and $9.3m.
A South African newspaper, The Mail and
Guardian, reported on Friday that South Africa
had begun to work out the process of returning
the money.
According to the newspaper, the effort of South
Africa is aimed at starting on a clean slate with
Nigerian President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.
The money was taken to South Africa through
Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg in three
suitcases by a delegation said to represent the
Nigerian government.
ATEKE TOM TO BUHARI: DON'T SCRAP
AMNESTY PROGRAMME
A former leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante, High
Chief Ateke Tom, has urged the President-elect,
Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), not to
abandon the Amnesty Programme put in place
by ex-President Musa Yar’Adua and continued
by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Ateke Tom, who congratulated Buhari on his
victory at the poll, also appealed to him to
collaborate with leaders in the Niger Delta to
develop the oil -rich region.
The former militant leader, who assured Buhari
that the people of the region would support his
administration, added that nobody would go
back to the creeks or attack oil installations.
The ex-fighter, who spoke with punch newsmen
in Okrika Local Government Area on Friday,
appealed to Buhari to continue where President
Jonathan would stop on the Amnesty
Programme, describing the programme as a
creation of the struggle of the former Niger Delta
agitators.
“I am congratulating Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.) on his victory during the election. We
thank God for today that Buhari is now our
President-elect and we pray to God to give him
wisdom to lead our country aright.
On the disagreement between him and the River
State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, he pointed
that though the governor and some politicians in
the state hated him, such hatred had made him
more popular.
“Everybody knows that Amaechi hates me. Up till
now, Amaechi still hates me. Unless our
incoming President will be thoughtful, Amaechi
could convince him (Buhari) to fight me. The
politician only knows how to lie.
APC IN PANIC MODE BECAUSE AGBAJE WILL
WIN IN LAGOS – FANI- KAYODE
In a statement yesterday by the Director of
Media and Publicy, PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-
Kayode said, “They should thank their lucky stars
that we have a President who saw fit to concede
victory and behave like a gentleman rather than
cause a stir by rejecting the results and going to
court.”
Fani-Kayode described allegations by the All
Progressive Congress (APC) that President
Jonathan planned to rig today’s governorship
election in Lagos in favour of the candidate of
the PDP, Mr Jimi Agbaje were far from the truth.
According to Fani- Kayode, the APC in panic
mode because it knows that Agbaje will win the
election, adding that this was the first time in 16
years that the APC together with the opposition
was facing a formidable challenge from a
governorship candidate of the PDP, Mr Agbaje.
ELECTION: PDP STAKEHOLDERS WANT MU'AZU
REMOVED FROM OFFICE IF...
Major stakeholders and some founding fathers of
the People's Democratic Party,PDP in Adamawa
state have called for the sack of the National
Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu, and members of
the National Working Committee of the party if
the party fails to win at least 20 governorship
seats inSaturday's governorship elections.
The stakeholders explained that such failure was
enough reasons for him to resign or be forced to
leave the seat.
Speaking to This day Journalists in Yola on
Friday ,the spokesman of the founding fathers of
the PDP, Senator Abubakar Halilu Girei said they
had resolved to ask the National Chairman and
NWC members to resign if the party fails to get
at least 20 out of the 36 states of the federation.
He said they would be forced to resign if they did
not meet the benchmark by producing at least
20 governorship seats across the country.
*I wasn’t in Lagos to rig election, Jonathan
replies APC
*Ignore APC lawmakers, factional Speaker tells
Ekiti CJ
*INEC reschedules Assembly poll in eight Bayelsa
constituencies
*B’Haram attacks Borno villages, kills 22
*Military helicopter crashes in Lagos, CAS orders
probe
*Girl, 15, two others injured in Lagos-Ibadan
road crash
*Ebonyi workers suspend one month strike
*APC tells supporters in Adamawa to defy curfew
*How APC took over Ondo from PDP
*Ekiti politics of impeachment, election crisis
*Poll: Rivers residents endure unending political
tension
THIS DAY
*Bayelsa: Suspected Pirates Attack Passenger
Boats
*Disregard APC’s False Alert’, PDP Urges
Lagosians
*Guber Poll: 760 Jostle to be Governors
*Governors' Forum Urges INEC, Security
Agencies to Improve on Performance
*APC for Agbaje Group May Decide Lagos Poll
*CBN to Publish New List of Bank Debtors
*Fayose’s Impeachment: CJ Directed to
Constitute Panel
*NAPTIP: Legitimate Concerns on Sexual Abuse
Abound in IDP Camps
VANGUARD-

*Guber polls: Will Buhari’s Victory throw up
bandwagon effect?
*The deadly AS/AS combination
*S/Africa starts of with Buhari on clean slate, to
return $15m arms money
*How guards slit their Indian manager’s throat
*Sokoto INEC set for Saturday election
*Aisha Buhari: The beauty moving to Aso Villa
*KESHI HUMBLED!
*Those who failed us will be asked to step aside
– Gulak
*Beware of those defecting to APC now, Justice
Abdullahi warns Buhari
*Carry out a comprehensive reform of political
structure …MDCAN tells Buhari
*Fear rules Rivers
*Oba Akiolu’s threat: Will APC’s apology save
Ambode?
*Nigerians urge Buhari to revive the economy
THE NATION
*Jonathan storms Lagos with N10bn to rig polls
*President met with Obanikoro, Gani Adams,
Agbaje, so what? — Presidency
*Governorship polls: APC, PDP in epic battle
*APC tells members to ignore directive as police
impose curfew on Adamawa
*INEC shifts polls in eight constituencies in
Bayelsa
*Be professional, neutral—Police chief
*Clark calls for peace
*Voters safe in Rivers, says Amaechi
*No alternative to PVC, card reader in today’s
elections —INEC
*5218 to contest House of Assembly elections
*Obiano, Umeh battle Obi, Ngige for assembly
seats
*Don’t vent your anger on corps members —
NYSC DG tells politicians
*Policemen, INEC driver escape mob attack over
alleged plot to divert election materials
*Ebonyi police uncover plot to disrupt guber
election
*Sensitive materials distributed ahead of
elections in Kano
*Kogi REC compromised, APC alleges
*Ondo APC opens situation office for assembly
poll
*Anambra monarch’s police aides feared killed in
car crash